Several lies were told during the third GOP debate on Wednesday night. Two of the most egregious belonged to the front runners, Ben Carson and Donald Trump, but Marco Rubio made a solid effort to win the trophy.

Trump was asked about his criticism of Mark Zuckerberg because he suggested that there should be more H-1B visas available for employers involved in the tech field. Trump claimed he did not say anything about Zuckerberg. A quick fact check proved that he was telling a complete falsehood. However, the poorly prepared group of moderators did not have the information in front of them.

“There’s a company called Mannatech, a maker of nutritional supplements, with which you had a ten-year relationship,” Carl Quintanilla asked. “They offered claims that they could cure autism and cancer. They paid $7 million to settle a deceptive-marketing lawsuit in Texas and yet your involvement continued. Why?”

Ben Carson joined Trump in telling a blatant lie. He said that he had never been associated with the company. Once again a quick fact check revealed not only a decade’s long involvement, but an infomercial he did for the company, and once again the moderators did not have that information available.

Marco Rubio continues to call Hillary Clinton a ‘liar.’ He has no proof, but his only choice is to attack another candidate or someone might ask him questions he prefers not to answer.

Marco Rubio has one talent; he can look directly at the camera and tell lie after lie. Wednesday evening this talent was on display for all of America to see and hear.

If the moderators had been fully prepared; (the old rule of ‘never ask a question about which you don’t know the answer yourself’); he would have been exposed. Instead they ‘let him off the hook’ until the truth came out the next day in the media.

Moderator: “Senator Rubio, you yourself have said that you’ve had issues. You have a lack of bookkeeping skills. You accidentally inter-mingled campaign money with your personal money. You faced foreclosure on a second home that you bought. And just last year, you liquidated a $68,000 retirement fund. That’s something that cost you thousands of dollars in taxes and penalties. In terms of all of that, it raises the question whether you have the maturity and wisdom to lead this $17 trillion economy. What do you say?”

Rubio: “Well, you just – you just listed a litany of discredited attacks from Democrats and my political opponents, and I’m not gonna waste 60 seconds detailing them all.”

The next morning on MSNBC, the host of ‘Morning Joe,’ Joe Scarborough, discredited both Rubio and the moderator.

“Marco just flat-out lied to the American people, there,” he said. “And I was stunned that the moderators didn’t stop there and go, ‘Wait a second, these are court records. What are you talking about?’”

What we actually saw Wednesday night was an old GOP ploy; ‘when telling a lie, act as though you believe it’s the truth.

This extraordinarily long campaign season has exposed the GOP candidates and will continue to do so. I will not be surprised if by the February 1^st Iowa caucus only six of them remain. That will leave only six unqualified candidates for the American public to scrutinize instead of the 15 residents in the clown car today.

Inexperience will be Rubio’s downfall. He’s incapable of leading our nation, and his single ability, to tell lies, will eventually expose him for the charlatan he is.

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By James Turnage

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